fs: avoid I_NEW inodes

To be on the safe side, it should be less fragile to exclude I_NEW inodes
from inode list scans by default (unless there is an important reason to
have them).

Normally they will get excluded (eg.  by zero refcount or writecount etc),
however it is a bit fragile for list walkers to know exactly what parts of
the inode state is set up and valid to test when in I_NEW.  So along these
lines, move I_NEW checks upward as well (sometimes taking I_FREEING etc
checks with them too -- this shouldn't be a problem should it?)

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c
index 331f2e88e284..220c13f0d73d 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c
@@ -380,6 +380,14 @@ void inotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list)
                 struct list_head *watches;
 
                 /*
+                 * We cannot __iget() an inode in state I_CLEAR, I_FREEING,
+                 * I_WILL_FREE, or I_NEW which is fine because by that point
+                 * the inode cannot have any associated watches.
+                 */
+                if (inode->i_state & (I_CLEAR|I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW))
+                        continue;
+
+                /*
                  * If i_count is zero, the inode cannot have any watches and
                  * doing an __iget/iput with MS_ACTIVE clear would actually
                  * evict all inodes with zero i_count from icache which is
@@ -388,14 +396,6 @@ void inotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list)
                 if (!atomic_read(&inode->i_count))
                         continue;
 
-                /*
-                 * We cannot __iget() an inode in state I_CLEAR, I_FREEING, or
-                 * I_WILL_FREE which is fine because by that point the inode
-                 * cannot have any associated watches.
-                 */
-                if (inode->i_state & (I_CLEAR | I_FREEING | I_WILL_FREE))
-                        continue;
-
                 need_iput_tmp = need_iput;
                 need_iput = NULL;
                 /* In case inotify_remove_watch_locked() drops a reference. */